{"slug": "miguel-de-cervantes", "label": "Miguel de Cervantes", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5682", "qid": "Q5682", "description": "Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1547, 1700], "span_label": ["1547 CE", "1700 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "don-quixote", "label": "Don Quixote", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "madrid", "label": "Madrid", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1547, "year_label": "1547 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 29", "text": "September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish fiction writer (d. 1616)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369359234#Births", "title": "1547", "revid": 1369359234, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1575, "year_label": "1575 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – Future Spanish author and playwright Miguel de Cervantes, then 28, is taken hostage by the Ottoman Albanian pirate Arnaut Mami after an attack on the Spanish galley Sol off of the Catalan coast. Cervantes spends the next five years as a slave in Algeria before his family pays a ransom to free him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362481402#July–September", "title": "1575", "revid": 1362481402, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 16", "text": "January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on the theme of chivalry, Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, \"The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha\"), is published in Madrid. One of the first significant novels in the western literary tradition, it becomes a global bestseller almost at once.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#January–March", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The second volume of Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote (\"El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha\") is published, and is as successful as the first. Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever writes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#Date_unknown", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#April–June", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Deaths › April–June"}}, {"year": 1700, "year_label": "1700 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "An English translation of the novel Don Quixote, \"translated from the original by many hands and published by Peter Motteux\", begins publication in London. While popular among readers, it will eventually come to be known as one of the worst translations of the novel, totally betraying the spirit of Miguel de Cervantes's masterpiece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366570351#Date_unknown", "title": "1700", "revid": 1366570351, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}